News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Grisly Find in Iraq
Navy SEAL Saves Comrades By Falling on Grenade
Shiites push for British troops to leave
Iraqi police force facing reshuffle

Operation Enduring Freedom
Suicide attacks change life in Afghan capital Video
Afghan gov. escapes roadside bomb attack

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Government appeals wiretapping decision
Italian hostages released by Niger kidnappers
FAA restricts flights over East River

Troops on Trial
Shays: Abu Ghraib abuses were sex ring
Military Pilot Sentenced in Ecstasy Case

Mid-East Ceasefire / Hamas Rising / Israel at War
Seven Palestinians Killed in Gaza Airstrikes

Worldwide Wackos
Shays: Abu Ghraib abuses were sex ring
U.S.: Test points to N. Korea nuke blast
Objections From China, Russia Could Delay United Nations Resolution
Bush urges tough response on North Korea
Germany to Iran: It's not too late to avoid sanctions

Homegrown Moonbats
George Clooney says no to politics

Politics / Government
Teen Questioned Over Online Bush Threats
Page Chief 'Didn't Know Foley Problem Until 2005'
First Openly Gay Congressman Gerry Studds Dies
Ney pleads guilty, says he'll resign

Mother Nature
Buffalo Begins Cleanup After Deadly Snowstorm

Oddities
Disney says "non" to Mouse orgy
Intestinal ailment ads turn stomachs
Yankee player jet overshoots runway in California
Virtual personal trainers, use with care
'Guru of Ganja' indicted again

Other News of Note
Police: Body is Missing Vt. Student: VIDEO
Suspect in Vermont Student Death Has Criminal History
Muslims find errors in Pope's presentation of Islam
Armenian genocide monument destroyed in France

Fox News
Passenger May Have Been Fla. Highway Killer
Cardinals Beat Mets 9-6, NLCS Tied 1-1
Tigers Beat A's 3-0 to Take 3-0 Lead in ALCS
Pennsylvania Jury Fines Wal-Mart $78 Million
Florida Police Believe 4 Bodies Found Beside Highway to Be 'Family'
Mel Gibson: Diane Sawyer Can't Save Him

Reuters: Top News
Bono launches U.S. Red campaign for AIDS in Africa
Ex-Thai leader Thaksin can return from exile: PM - Video
Nobel award gives impetus to poverty battle: Yunus
Asbestos kept off global list of toxic substances
Mexican archeologists find largest Aztec figure
Online brokerage account scams worry SEC
Microsoft eyes another chance to be a TV player
Homeowners eyeing mortgage rate escape hatch
E. coli link promising find but source uncertain
New test identifies mystery New York viruses
Jolie guard involved in scuffle in India
Stocks gain as Dow hits another record high - Video
S&P 3rd-qtr profit views inch up: Reuters Estimates
European stocks in 8-day winning run, Lloyds jumps
Oil rises on Norway field outages - Video
Dollar rallies, buoyed by strong sentiment survey
On the radar: Rush Enterprises
Risk-taking pays off in junk bonds
German development bank KfW to take EADS stake: report
VW to make bid recommendations Sunday: union
OPEC to meet on October 19 to work out oil cut
Falling gasoline price bolsters U.S. consumers

AP World News
Diabetics warned about fake test strips
Analysts expect further commodities drop
Evans divorce papers cite adultery, porn
Super subs help Cards tie Mets in NLCS
British Airways worker sues over cross
Arbitrator: Supermax prison understaffed
Arrest made in Ariz. reservation rapes
Duff, boyfriend seek restraining orders
Tigers close in on World Series dream
Mandrell happy with Rimes' tribute album
Obituaries in the news

Military.com
Congress Pushing Hypersonics Research

CENTCOM: News Releases
HILLAH IP CHIEF, DEPUTY KILLED IN EXPLOSION

CITIZEN’S TIP LEADS IPS TO UNEXPLODED VBIED

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES SPOIL TERRORIST ATTACK

MND-B SOLDIERS DETAIN TERRORISTS, SEIZE MUNITIONS

TEAM PROVIDES REBUILDING SUPPLIES, ‘HOPE’ TO PAKISTAN VILLAGERS

IA CONDUCTS RAIDS AGAINST INSURGENTS IN BAGHDAD

INSURGENT MORTAR TEAM DESTROYED

USJFCOM
USJFCOM exhibits Joint Force Projection ACTD - podcast
Top DoD readiness officials tour command
Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2006 comes to successful close - podcast
More about the Joint Systems Integration Command
USJFCOM commander discusses reserve force issues - podcast

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
New Iraqi Government Takes Steps To Move Country Toward Peace - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Leaders' Infantry Training Reinforces Combat Skills - Story
'IED Hunters' Work to Clear, Safeguard Roadways - Story
Renovated Schools Set Standard in Kirkuk Area - Story
Army Interpreter Pays for Mosque Supplies - Story

IN IRAQ
CSI: National Forensics Academy Opens in Baghdad
Civil Affairs Soldiers Distribute Supplies to School
Saab al Bour Opens Refurbished Primary School
Soldiers Patrol the Liquid Highways of Iraq
Soldiers Work to Eliminate Terrorist Threats

IN AFGHANISTAN
Task Force Grizzly Soldiers Eliminate Insurgents
Afghan NCOs Complete Drill Sergeant Course

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Weekly Reconstruction Report (PDF)
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine Casualties - Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut
An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1066 - At the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror wins England.
1586 - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth.
1774 - The First Continental Congress is the first to declare colonial rights.
1806 - The French beat the Prussians at the Battle of Auerstadt.
1834 - Henry Blair becomes the first African-American to be granted a U.S. patent, for a corn planter.
1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
1862 - Baseball player James Creighton ruptures his bladder hitting a HR (he dies 10/18).
1867 - In Japan, the 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns.
1884 - George Eastman patents his paper-strip photographic film.
1912 - Teddy Roosevelt is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee.
1920 - The Soviet Union cedes part of Petsamo province to Finland.
1922 - In NYC, the Pennsylvania exchange receives the first automated telephones.
1933 - Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide, rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
1947 - Pilot Chuck Yeager makes the first supersonic flight (Mach 1.015), in a Bell XS-1.
1949 - 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders are convicted of sedition.
1950 - Reverend Sun Young Moon is liberated from Hung Nam prison.
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower promises to fire (as a Communist) any federal worker taking the 5th Amendment.
1958 - The Malagasy Republic becomes an autonomous republic in the French Community.
1960 - JFK first suggests the Peace Corps.
1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr., wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1965 - Joe Engle reaches 80 km in the X-15.
1968 - Apollo-7 is the subject of the first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft; in the Bahamas, Americans Gruener and Watson set a scuba depth record of 133 meters.
1975 - President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is broadsided.
1976 - Soyuz-23 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut-6, but returns without docking.
1980 - Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to the Supreme Court.
1983 - In Beirut, U.S. Marine peacekeeper Sgt. Allen Soifert is killed by a sniper.
1985 - On Monday Night football, the Jets retire Joe Namath's #12 before beating Miami 23-7.
1986 - Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize; the IOC decides to stagger the Winter and Summer Olympic schedule.

Birthdays
1633 - King James II of England (1685-88)
1644 - William Penn, English Quaker, founder of PA
1712 - George Grenville, British PM (1763-65)
1857 - Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer (built one of the first American autos)
1882 - Eamon DeValera, President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59)
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-1961)
1894 - e. e. cummings, poet
1896 - Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
1916 - C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General (1981-89)
1938 - John Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
1939 - Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
---- - Grover, muppet (Sesame Street)

Passings
1944 - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshall (WWII-Africa), suicide
1959 - Errol Flynn, actor
1977 - Bing Crosby, singer, of a heart attack in Madrid, Spain
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story)

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Thomas, Darwin Joel, USN (CA); A1H shot down; KIA, body not recovered

1967
Conoway, Gary Lee, USN (IL); remains returned August, 1984

Vaughan, Robert Reddington, USN (CA); RA3B shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1977
Dellenbaugh, Cornelia, Civilian; released from Saigon January, 1978

Dickerman, Leeland, Civilian; released from Saigon January, 1978

Affel, Charles, Civilian; released January, 1978